marine biologyn.

1880 Baedeker's Italy: Southern Italy & Sicily (ed. 7) 85 The institution [i.e. Dr. Dohrn's Zoological Station]..has fairly asserted itself as the central point for the study of marine biology.

1885 1st Rep. Fauna Liverpool Bay (Liverpool Marine Biol. Comm., 1886) 1 The following circular was..sent out..:—‘Marine Biology. A Meeting will be held in the Zoological Laboratory, University College, Liverpool, on Saturday, March 14th, at 3 p.m., to discuss the proposed scheme for a thorough investigation of the Fauna and Flora of the neighbouring seas.’

1890 Jrnl. Marine Biol. Assoc. 1 1 It is not proposed to limit the contents of this journal to formal reports..but to include within its pages..brief records of observations relating to the marine biology and fisheries of the coasts of the United Kingdom.

1936 Discovery June 166/2 M. Paul Lemoine..referred to his [sc. Sir Robert Mond's] work on behalf of marine biology.

1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 111 Of all the different facets of marine science, marine biology is perhaps the oldest in India.

1987 R. Ingalls End of Trag. 134 He talked about marine biology and the study of ancient oceans from the fossil evidence.

2001 G. W. Rouse & F. Pleijel Polychaetes xx. 96/1 Nereididae (littoral ones often referred to as ‘ragworms’) are probably the most familiar of polychaetes, both from textbooks in zoology and marine biology and from their occurrence on seashores around the world.